From Trauma to Six-Figure Salon Empire
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Can you earn $100,000 a year being a stylist?
Can you earn 100 grand a year being a stylist?
Absolutely. I have six-figure stylists, but it has to be based off your willingness to do the work to get there. And it takes a lot of willpower and self-awareness to get there. Ashley Pajubin is a resilient, empowering entrepreneur and salon owner and the co-founder of Hugh Salon Ballantyne. Drawing from her journey of overcoming adversity, she leads with purpose and servant leadership, creating spaces where people grow, thrive, and build confidence, both personally and professionally. We're touching people, we're healing people, and that's exactly what it needs to be seen as. Because at the end of the day, people depend on us to make them feel the best version of their selves when they wake up every morning.
What is some advice you'd give to a founder that's trying to get off the ground, maybe a female founder, some wisdom?
They have to keep a community of people around them where they're not the smartest person in the room and that they are humble enough to receive the feedback and the criticism that it takes to be successful without being offended.
It spans the globe like a super high school internet. Elvis Brando.
What personal journey led Ashley to become a salon owner?
Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. It's not over until I win. The Living Your Legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy. That's extraordinary. The impossible. Oh, that is sensational. Open. Chicago was the lead. You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream. Hello and welcome back to another episode. Joining me today is Ashley. She's an entrepreneur like all of us and working hard to actually change, disrupt and reimagine how an industry is seen. She's been doing this for a while and has a pretty epic story. I'm excited to dive in.
How does Ashley define success in the beauty industry?
So Ashley, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
So tell us about this venture you're on and what you do. I know you're doing something pretty awesome and I'm excited to dive into your journey and story.
Thank you so much. Well, I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. I was actually an executive assistant for 15 years. And at the age of 32, I went to cosmetology school and decided to pursue my passion and then find a way for it to turn into a purpose. Because you don't really have that purpose until your passion meets how you service others and how it impacts them. Sure. I think that finding my way into that part of my story is where I really started to grow and blossom and want to pour that back into others.
Great. And let's fast forward to today. So what do you do now and how do you help people?
So I'm still behind the chair three days a week.
What mindset is necessary for success as a stylist?
I coach and mentor all of my employees to hold them accountable and teach them the tools that they need to be intentional and to be on purpose and to understand that the mindset and what they do and if they're self-aware enough to work on those things will help them be the best version of themselves, but also the most successful version of themselves.
So you own the studio and then you're also doing coaching technically, right?
I do coaching on, well, in the salon, I coach all of my employees.
Exactly. Yeah. But then also I was going to say it kind of like bridges into mindset and personal development too, right? Absolutely. And then you also said you, you know, one thing you're working on is kind of changing how the industry is seen and how people operate.
Absolutely. I think that, you know, the salon industry is seen as, you know, more of just like a hobby to a lot of people. You know, I joke around that, you know, if you, people tell their parents they're going to cosmetology school and they're like, oh my God, you're not going to make any money. And if you Google, you know, how much a stylist makes and says like $30,000 a year. And that's just unbelievable.
Well, I know how much some can make because I sometimes pay for my wife's hair. Right. Exactly. So I know it can be a very lucrative business. Exactly.
And so we have to teach the people that don't have the business tools how to do that. Because sadly, a lot of people in our industry, they're right-brained.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Can you earn $100,000 a year being a stylist?
0:00–1:11
2
What personal journey led Ashley to become a salon owner?
1:11–1:55
3
How does Ashley define success in the beauty industry?
1:55–2:47
4
What mindset is necessary for success as a stylist?
2:47–4:09
5
How do environment and community affect stylist success?
4:09–4:54
6
What role does mentorship play in building a salon career?
4:54–5:44
7
What traits separate successful stylists from those who quit?
5:44–6:27
8
What advice does Ashley have for aspiring beauty entrepreneurs?
6:27–18:52